Wording widely reproduced on other sites, and attributed there to Awake! of 22 August 1967, page 27, has the female skull's cranial capacity about 10 percent smaller than the male's and says psychological evidence supports the man taking the lead. This site has not confirmed that wording, that page, or that the magazine was stating the view rather than quoting someone: the issue could not be opened in any form. The Watchtower Online Library's index of Awake! begins at 1970, a full-text search of that library for 'cranial capacity' returns nothing, and no scan of the 1967 issue was found.

Confidence note. Not located in any form that could be opened on 19 September 2026. The Watchtower Online Library carries Awake! only from 1970, and full-text searches there for the distinctive phrases return nothing; the Internet Archive holds no 1967 volume of the magazine; no scan of the page was found. The wording in circulation was seen only on jwfacts.com. Re-checked independently on the same date: the Watchtower Online Library's index of Awake! begins at 1970, and a full-text search of that library for the phrase 'cranial capacity' returns no result in any publication. To confirm the passage, a scan or a library copy of the issue of 22 August 1967 would be needed, together with the article title and the surrounding paragraphs, since the sentence may be quoting an outside authority rather than stating the magazine's own view.

Notes. The same secondary page attributes a similar argument to a recorded public talk given in Oakland, California, in 1971 by Samuel Herd, later a member of the Governing Body. That recording was not examined and no transcript from the organisation exists, so nothing about it is recorded as evidence.

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Confidence note. Read on 19 September 2026 as a finding aid. Nothing on this page is treated as evidence. Where its citations were checked against the originals, most page references were accurate; the exceptions are recorded in the notes of the individual sources.

Notes. The page states the date of its last update as July 2022.

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